John Louis Petit was an artist and architectural historian whose paintings of buildings and landscapes, almost exclusively in watercolour, complemented his activities as one of the mid-19th-century's leading writers and speakers on ecclesiastical architecture. He was a vocal opponent of the dominant architectural orthodoxies of the Gothic Revival.
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1801
- Died
- 1868
